1.   Blaming each other for the impasse, each country will now to set its own quotas for salmon catches.

2.   He said that Puget Sound tribes whose great, great, great grandfathers had signed treaties with the United States were entitled to half the salmon catch.

3.   In exchange, Canada would agree that the salmon catch by the two countries would rise in times of abundance, and be cut back in times of scarcity.

4.   That figure places the value of the sea urchin fishery above squid, and almost twice the value of either the Dungeness crab or salmon catch.

5.   The salmon catch is causing an international incident in part because salmon are notorious for disregarding political boundaries.

6.   The U.S. Friday proposed that the two countries put aside differences in principle over allocation of the salmon catch, and discuss specific runs on specific rivers.

7.   Tobin said Thursday that his country has sharply cut back its salmon catch in order to conserve endangered fish stocks.

8.   Underlying the whole dispute is the Pacific Salmon Treaty, which governs the salmon catches on the West Coast from Oregon up to Alaska.

9.   Canada on Thursday proposed binding arbitration to break a deadlock with the United States over dividing the salmon catch off the West Coast.

10.   Glavin wants a new agreement whose priority is conservation instead of divvying up the West Coast salmon catch.